US woman shot dead by government agents was prize-winning poet
An American mother of three who was shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis in shocking and disputed circumstances was a prize-winning poet, it has emerged. Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who was described as engaging “in an act of domestic terrorism” by the US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia, according to a post on the sc...
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